Motivation: "It all starts at a river: like a journey against the stream, the film reveals a dramatic episode of a recent and not much distant war. Calm voices, emotionless, tell about ethnic cleaning operations, mass murders and executions in which they were involved. They are audio-tracks recorded at tribunal.
The images are shot on the scenes of the crime, today. In the articulation between images and story, we dive into the mechanism of a massacre and we perceive how these mechanisms can take place, always, everywhere.
A powerful cinematographic writing, an outstanding piece of art, a document on our recent history, a film where we learn about ourselves".

BEST MID-LENGTH DOCUMENTARY AWARD

DUM SPIRO SPERO
by Pero Kvesić (Croatia, 2016)

Motivation: "Perhaps it's a diary, full of desperate irony and sarcasm. Perhaps it's a journey in the present, in the house where one can live the loved ones, until the last breath. Perhaps and above all it's a meditation on time, on images, on death - a meditation on making cinema".

BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY AWARD

REMAINS FROM THE DESERT
by Sebastian Mez (Germany, 2016)

Motivation: "A boundless, almost apocalyptic space, inhabited by errant spirits that have become invisible. An intense and precise cinematographic gaze but also an important topography of a tragedy that is place in this moment and that still seems impossible".

“Gian Paolo Paoli” Award for the Best Ethno-Anthropological Documentary Film

YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW MUCH I LOVE YOU
by Pawel Lozinski (Poland, 2016)

Motivation: "Anthropology means also questioning and staging the intimacy of family relations. In this powerful cinematographic experience, a mother and a daughter try to speak to each other under the watchful eye a therapist. We are like in a film of John Cassavetes, where faces become unforgettable landscapes of emotions".